Wednesday, September 28, 2016

All powers are invested in the Trustees (Not the Council) and they changed that.No money can be used for anything other than the school itself (Not the church or its employees) They left that out. To be honest they had no official right to have Primary or Boys without reverting to Trustees to change the constitution officially.

It's a criminal case that they forged a document declaring themselves as Trustees and hence put the property, land, and building in their names (Kondo, Safwat, Robbie and 2 others). By making themselves Trustees thy gave themselves the right to change the Constitution. They did this in 1995 very slowly and quietly.

The school was founded in 1928 not 1902. The school in 1902 did belong to the church but they closed it down and sold the land and buildings. They now want to go back to the 1902 situation and pretend it's their school.

I have all the evidence and did try to get support when I was there but no one listened. I knew the church would destroy the school because they were bleeding it dry. I left $4000000 in the school account when I left and they wanted it very badly. I wanted to get new Trustees, along the lines of the original ones set up in the '50s and keep the Council with its powers as they were as PTA. Council members are also supposed to be elected by their communities not chosen by each other and should represent each community in the school.

This is a complex case but should be won easily. I couldn't do it from outside the country. All documents are in English and they were bribing lawyers to do false translations saying that they purchased the school back in the 50's when that was the date the mortgage was...

On Monday, 5th September 2016, 2:18 Osama El Tayeb wrote:

Subject: Re: Facebook

Comprehensive briefing.

Can we get supporting docs?

Can you prove that there were 4 million dollars in the account?

Is it in Lebanon or England?

On 5 Sep 2016 16:54, marina hitchen wrote:

Hi

I have all supporting documents for the theft of the land and the forged Trust document and the original Trust document and constitution.

I have no proof of bank balance when I left Sudan. The money was in Sudan partly in Government bonds. The school bank was just down the street but I forget the name. I was doing (checking) accounts regularly so I know what was there. Maybe the old budget show something so I will see if I still have them.

Marina

On Friday September 9, 2016 2:32 Osama El Tayeb wrote:

Subject: Re: Facebook

Is it possible i get a photocopy of the docs, proving that they forged the Trust document and the original Trust document and constitution?

Also a briefing on how the Trustees were appointed through the years till we reached the present status.

Was the Governor of Khartoum a Trustee or just a member of the council?

Also, you said you have filed a case at the Ministry with all the docs. Can we get a copy of the file?

Rgds

Osama

On 9 Sep 2016 11:36, marina hitchen wrote:

Hi

Every single document can be printed from unitykhartoum.blogspot.com/

1945 is the original constitution and Trust.

1956 confirms the land sale from the Church to Gwynne.

1997 constitution is not legal nor the ones following.

The original Trustees were chosen by Gwynne (Governor being one of them).

The existing Trustees had to vote in new members apart from the Archbishop who had an automatic right.

There are 2 letters there from the remaining Trustees who nominated different Trustees to the ones you got in the forgery.

The forgery is up there too.

I brought a police case (hence the arrests) and went to the National Assembly. No idea of case numbers as they successfully buried all of it.

We got no support from parents despite briefing them on all of it. We put a lot of energy and heartache into that and it seems as though no one did (or even wanted to) understand.

I'm afraid you have to plough through the info to grasp it. BUT there are commentaries, explanations and proposals on how to legalise it. We did not have that and had to piece it together as we found each document.

Look at the documents; they all say Unity Founded 1928 (not 1902). The 1927 report shows the end of CMS and beginning of ownership by Gwynne. Then to a Trust in 1945.We had everything we needed to win. Safwat (one of the dodgy Trustees) was convinced we would win. I got a summons to Luxor Court 2 years ago but didn't go. Seems I didn't keep the summons either. Yes, I am willing to help but I can't go through all that again so if you could just brief yourself and get back to me then I'll support you. Same goes for Steve.

Sunday, September 21, 2014

These pages from the CMS archives show the original request by Bishop Gwynne to set up Unity High School in the buildings that it continues to occupy to this day. The buildings, as this document notes, were previously occupied by the CMS Girls' School. The Bishop had originally requested that the CMS provide for a rent free period of seven years to help ease the financial burden of setting up the school, however this was finally settled at five years. The request to set up the school was approved and adopted on July 11th 1928.

Tuesday, September 16, 2014

One of your students joined my school in Jeddah today which
brought back memories. Good to see all the pictures on this site and if you
have any new ones please get them up here. Not so good to hear that the school
is once again facing some problems. This was sadly inevitable and such a pity
parents did not act sooner to take back the school for the rightful owners. We
also have some more documents about the sale of the school to Bishop Gwynne
(receipts and such like) and his transference to the Trustees. I am sure many
of you would find them interesting and hopefully we can post them up soon.
There are also some nice photos including one of Clergy House. Please work to
try to bring justice to Bishop Gwynne and all those missionaries and teachers
who built your school into the best school in Africa. Do not let them down.
They and your children deserve so much more.

I have to say that I do miss Khartoum and there are so very
few schools with the history that Unity has. I will be visiting soon and hope
to catch up with some of you then. Good Luck.

on Oct 12, 2013, Marina wrote:
This is an enquiry e-mail via http://www.unityhighschool.org/ from :
Marina

Hi
I got the offer of an all paid trip to go and testify against your boss. I am not looking to get at Robbie personally so I guess I won't take up the offer. What you have to understand is that you don't actually have a boss. If you can in all honesty buy into that corruption then there is nothing to say. If you just want the job at the price you have to pay then there is also not much to say apart from what your conscience must be telling you. I am out now so the truth lays with you. It is your own choice. Believe it or not it was never about a job. I am earning a lot more in Saudi. It is simply about right and wrong. It just came to my mind today because of this court order. Up to you. You are the one living with this. I did what I believe to be right and still believe to be right. if anyone tells you otherwise then read the proof. If you need the job so be it but never ever believe that you are doing what is correct. Any idiot can see that would not be true. Good luck.
Marina
Sorry about the spelling. Too emotional.

Thank you for the two emails you sent last week. I regret the delay in responding. I was away for Eid and I promised myself I would not access my school email account during that time. On my return the Internet here failed, and then I went back to work.Today is really the first chance I have had to respond properly.

Regarding your allegations about the ownership or otherwise of the school, and about my continuing role at the school, I should like to clarify a few points with you. First, you have never raised your allegations directly with me, nor provided any evidence, so I have had no opportunity to evaluate them. I am not inviting you to do so now, because the second point makes them irrelevant. As I understand it, the people you accuse of having “stolen” the school have been vindicated by the authorities here and the matter has been closed without any stain on anyone’s name. Frankly, that is good enough for me. Third, the children in the school still need to be educated and that is my primary purpose as Principal. Please understand that I am not answerable to you for my actions or my conscience, so please do not be offended if I say that your judgement of me and my motives has not had, and will never have, the slightest impact on me.

I am assuming you want me to read the blog that purports to be in the name of the school I lead, and to accept without question what is asserted there. I have looked at the blog but as you can imagine, as the head of a school I am much more influenced by my own observations and experiences than by anything else. I have to say that I enjoy working with those people who have been routinely vilified by Steve Gooch and by you, and I fundamentally disagree with your negative assessment of them. I myself have nothing but respect for their work, for their integrity and for their dedication to the school. When placing that against the incautious public utterances of embittered ex-employees of the school who have been abusing their privileged positions of trust in order to cast aspersions on their former employers and colleagues, I am sure you can see that my decision to continue to work on behalf of the children, parents, staff and Council of Unity High School is an entirely principled one.

Moreover, in my estimation, your approach to dealing with the issues you have with the school has been below what I would expect from a professional. I cannot believe the amount of time and effort you continue to expend on an issue which has now been closed by the authorities. I do not know what your ultimate aim is and I suspect that might make two of us. However your continuing pursuit of something that is to all intents and purposes a dead issue, particularly when done in public, is surely not doing you any good and is certainly not doing the children any good. The blog seems to have become a bizarre set of unrelated pages of whatever Steve Gooch happens to have in his possession at any time. I have to say I am unhappy about him posting photographs of children from the school on it. I recognize he has not named them, but I am sure you will appreciate that it is still not wise to place such materials on a public area. I said as much to him when he handed over the logbook he had in his possession to me last year, and this brings me to my final point.

The only reason I could imagine that I would wish to meet with you, would be for you finally to return the Principals' logbooks in your possession. They are valuable to the school and to the history of Khartoum – I doubt there are too many extant documents with a continuous narrative going back to the start of the last century in Khartoum, or indeed elsewhere in the world. They belong at the school. Whilst I suspect you would hope your reputation as leader of Unity High School will in due time be based on your fearlessness and investigative skills, you have to be aware that the courts have ruled in favour of the school, so all your allegations remain in doubt. You have therefore to accept that not everyone might see your campaign in the same light that you and Steve Gooch do. You would then have further to accept that what is not in doubt is that you are at present solely and personally responsible for the deliberate removal and potential loss of a large and important part of the school and the country’s history. I imagine people would not find it that difficult to make their own assessment of your actions in respect of the logbooks.

I should further say that I see no reason for us to meet in person for the necessary action to be effected to put this right. All you need to do is to call a courier and despatch the logbooks to the school for my attention. Posterity can then have the chance to judge you on your years of service to the school rather than on one spiteful act of cultural vandalism which benefits no-one but which negatively affects many.

I think you completely misunderstand the situation. I was called to witnss in the case so it is clearly not over. I am not coming because I feel I cannot win now despite having all the evidence. You must be able to see from the documents that what has happened in that school was totally illegal and immoral. My only aim was to restore Bishop Gwynne as the sole owner and adhere to his wishes. Anyway I can see that you will believe whatever you choose to believe and have already judged me as you believe I have judged you.

At the end of the day I know what is right and if you knew me you would see that I am not at all a vengeful person and in no way vindictive. The log books belong to the Principal of Bishop Gwynne's school and Unity is no longer that school. They certainly do not belong to either me or you. I however am in posession and do not know what to do with them. I am certainly not passing them to you.

All I asked of you was to believe the evidence. Quite frankly it is impossible not to believe it. It is possible to lack understanding and certainly it takes time and effort to work your way through that documentation. Your Council are playing with you and you are exactly the person they wanted.

Barry Birch also fitted their profile as he knew nothing and did not choose to know. The Council were in dispute at the time of the illegal takeover and gave in as I have given in as the continued education of the children cannot be allowed to suffer. Honestly I am trying to escape from all that but it keeps coming back to haunt me. I did not expect that subpoena to Sudan and the anger all came back.

If you believe that forging staff signatures on powers of attorney letters without their knowledge is normal behaviour then I am horrified. The proof is there, Read Pat Clague's resignation letter from the 80's. They were doing similar stuff even then.

You have no wish to meet me nor I you. Your mind is closed and when you open it in future years you will see I am right. In the meantime I wish you every success with regards to the academic side of things. As for the rest you can remain blind. It is your conscience. Where I come from doing nothing is almost as bad as joining in the crime. We need have no further correspondence as it achieves nothing. I will not turn against you because of your naivity and I hope that you reconsider your opinion of me. It is not that important to me now. I did my best and lost. Its not the first time and probably won't be the last. Good does not win in the end every time.

Take Care

Marina

On Friday, October 25, 2013 7:04 PM, marina hitchen wrote:

Oh I forgot to add that what a Sudanese court decides is not infallible. They do not understand the paperwork and there were deliberate mis-translations done (I believe) which muddied the water. I don't care a jot about how I am remembered. I am answerable to myself only. THE LOG BOOKS DO NOT BELONG TO YOU. Yes they are important and I am planning the best place for them to go. It would not be your Church people. Look at what they already 'lost' from the church and the school. Invaluable gifts were given to them and where are they now??? Ask yourself why they removed their history. Ask why they changed the date of the school inception from 1928 back to 1902. The answers are all there.

Saturday, May 24, 2014

I thought I would
drop you a line. We met outside the Sudanese Embassy having a smoke on Sunday.
Hope you remember me. I hope your family wedding went ok!

I am interested in your area of work and what it is you
actually do in the media. I think you might be interested in my story from
Sudan of Unity High School and how it was stolen by the Bishop of Khartoum on
the back of the disappearance of a donation to the church by the British Royal
Family back in the 70's...there is plenty of info and documentation here if you
want to take a look:

http://unitykhartoum.blogspot.com/search/label/Corruption%20in%20the%20School
If you follow that 'corruption in the school' tag you will find a lot of very
interesting info that is all pretty much cross-referenced. The Director of the
school has already been in jail twice over this but seems to have been let out
on both occasions. It would be interesting to know what the school has done
with the $4,000,000 that it had in its bank accounts at the end of the tenure
of Principal Dr Marina Hitchen also.

Anyway, I thought you
might be interested in that story. I am working on turning it into a novel
right now.

But that aside, it is
always good to connect up with other writers and creative people. My link below
will give you a bit more about me. One book under my belt, editing a journal on
Reiki and working on a novel right now. Be in touch.

Regards,

Steve Gooch

From: Hafiz Kheir

Sent: 05 April 2013 16:10

To: Steve Gooch

Subject: Re: Sudan Embassy

Hi Steve, and thank you so much for your email...

Hope all went well with your embassy papers(!)...

Sorry for the delay responding; I don't have a reliable net
connection here...

The wedding went good, am enjoying a lazy Cairo time with
family...

the Story of the Unity School is very interesting indeed,
and I can clearly see a documentary there!

I am reading the background and documents in the link you
sent, but lets talk a little bit more, when

I get back to my base in Virginia, to see what we can do
together...

If you're still in Cairo, maybe we can meet for Coffee and
chat one evening, before I travel back on the 10th (of April..)

You can call me on my cousin's mobile number: xxxxxxxxxxx
Cairo

All the best and let's keep it up!

Hafiz Kerr

Fri 05/04/2013 20:06

Hi Hafiz,

Glad that the wedding went fine and you are now chilling
out. Yes, got my papers sorted at the embassy eventually.

Yes, you are right, there is definitely potential for a
documentary in all that material for
sure. I think it goes deeper than we were able to investigate fully. Almost
certainly - but without any substantive evidence right now, there is another
school: KIPS (Khartoum International Preparatory School) involved in this in
the early days too - also 'stolen' it seems: not BY the church, but FROM the
church (the last I heard they are still fighting this in the courts and have
been for over 40 years now): maybe it was this that gave them the idea to take
Unity - an eye for an eye maybe? But KIPS is involved in this somehow. My ex
boss would possibly know a little more on that as she saw documents on a visit
there once that were swiftly removed from her sight by a lawyer at the school I
think...

And if KIPS IS involved - and for sure it would seem to be -
then a royal donation made by the British Monarchy in the 70's (which paid for
the building of KIPS I think) is also implicated. That donation - made by
Princess Ann seems to have largely gone missing also.

Oddly, even though we did not get a chance to search ALL the
documents held at the school, it does seem to be the case that the entire file
of minutes of various meetings in the school has disappeared - possibly now
held in the Sudan Archive at the university of Durham in the UK. That file
would cover the royal donation - possibly the argument between the Principal of
Unity at the time over monies expected to be paid or given back to her
'associate' (lover? friend? colleague?) by the school council on receipt of the
royal donation - this money was denied by the council and not long after, KIPS
was taken by someone who walked in with some documents and claimed the school
as his (forged Trust Deeds maybe?).

Anyway, the rabbit hole is deep and what you see on the
archive is the tip of the iceberg. And all of this going on in the school that
was at the centre of the international news in 2007 over the Teddy bear that
was named Mohamed. It is a MASSIVE story when you factor that into the equation
along with the royal donation and the head of the Anglican community in
Khartoum being a suspected thief!

Sadly I am not in Cairo now. I live in Alex at the moment
and am back here now. For sure get in touch any time and if you think there is
mileage in this, lets work on something. I am keen for the school to be
returned to a legal body of Trustees and for sure you could count on the
support and active participation of the Principal at the time we discovered all
this corruption: Dr Marina Hitchen.

Hope to hear from you soon.

Steve

(Note: So far this story has not been taken up by Hafez -
3rd November 2013)

All of your web sites have gone since you left the school. I have "hit" the chairman of the SCA with everything I have found and all the information you have alerted me to. Is there any more up to date news other tham Boulas being arrested that i can use. A number of the SCA members are asking for more information.ض. Dd

Regards

Len Whittaker.

From: Marina

Sent: 12 October 2013 20:56

To: L WHITTAKER

Subject: Re: Corruption

Hi

I never did get to the bottom of all that corruption in Sudan. I got called to court today to fight yet another case against the church. I just cannot do it. I have other battles to fight and maybe even win. It is just so sad that I was never really taken seriously and that Bishop Gwynne had so little of what he wanted for all that he put in. One consolation is that he expected it and would not be so surprised. As a non Christian I seem to be the most shocked.

Marina

From: "L WHITTAKER"

Date: ١٣ أكتوبر، ٢٠١٣ ١:٥٣:٢٨ م جرينتش+٠٢:٠٠

To: "'Marina'"

Subject: RE: Corruption

Interesting to hear from you, even more so as I didn’t send you that email. If it had been dated 2012 it may have been correct, but certainly not from me recently.

Investigations were carried out by both the SCA and the Diocese of Bradford, but neither found any “wrong doing” (surprise, surprise). Its all now in the past.

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